Banio Adrianna. Dance as a means of preventing diseases of civilization. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(8):1133-1142. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1433713 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6073 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 03.08.2018. Revised: 12.08.2018. Accepted: 31.08.2018. Dance as a means of preventing diseases of civilization Banio Adrianna adrianna.banio@wp.pl ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5514-9177 University of Szczecin, Department of Physical Education and Health Promotion Summary The aim of this study was to determine whether under the influence of dance classes favourable changes in the lives of people affected by diseases of civilization occur. The study group consisted of 56 middle-aged people, leading passive lifestyle (until they undertook activity in the form of dance). There were individuals having such health issues as: diabetes, coronary heart disease, cancer, problems with the spine as well as those being overweight and obese or living under high stress among them. The results show that dance activities cause many beneficial physiological changes in the body. They may reduce the risk of developing many diseases, which almost everyone is exposed to nowadays. Many also points out that the inclusion of dance exercises greatly improves their therapy’s efficiency. Key words diabetes, heart disease, cancer, spine, stress (cukrzyca, choroby serca, rak, kręgosłup, stress)